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Why doesn't AGP 2x work !?!

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Audiofight

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Got a stepping 6, 110 clock gen K7 Pro motherboard. I cannot get AGP 2x to work for the life of me. I have tried registry edits and updating drivers. Does anyone know how to make the beast turn on?

I am running the board, a 700/900 @ 1000, and a GeForce2 GTS 64 MB video card. This combination works great in a KX133 chipset, even cranks up to AGP 4x.

Please help!
 
Audiofight,

Getting 2x on your mobo with a any GeForce card, involves a lot of luck. Getting 2x on my K7PRO with SDR GeForce took many reformats, and different AGP mini-driver's from AMD. Bottom line, I've gotten it to work once, through 4 reformats. You can try enabling 2x AGP through Powerstrip, however I never did, because I hated having it in my system tray. You may soon realize why I desperately wanted a V5 5500. At least with a V5, all the features work outta the box. You probably don't have sidebanding either, huh?

Paul
 
I have already given up on the AGP 2x. A buyer for the board already backed out. I turned on Powerstrip and Windows immediately locked. I re-started and got UT to run for 3.4 seconds before lock-up number two.

I thought it was the video card. My V5 didn't give me any trouble. I should've kept it, but live and learn.
 
Why don't you try trading your GTS for an ATI Radeon? Only Nvidia cards have problems with AMD 751/756 boards. What about trading your Ghz system for a Duron/MSI combo? Although, a friend of mine can only run 5.22 drivers with his T-bird/MSI combo.

 
I have the KT7-Raid board coming and am looking to sell/trade the K7 Pro for a Duron or T-Bird and a hs/f for it.

So, no more worries.
 
There is really not much difference between 1X2X4X according to this site wich has a very good article about it. You will get more performance gain by pushing your ram to 222 or 322 than your 2X to 4X agp. Until 4X if fully supported I'd rather have a stable system at 1X and specially on VIA chipsets.

edit: ooops sorry I forgot to say that the site was in German
 
normally by installing the vgart driver either in normal or turbo will do it. normal for 1X and turbo for 2X.
 
It is a motherboard issue, a quite old one at that(a year or so), but-

"I thought it was the video card. My V5 didn't give me any trouble. I should've kept it, but live and learn."

A V5 will only run AGP 1X no matter what board you put it in, it doesn't support AGP 2X or 4X. As of right now, there is very little difference in games, though that should be changing shortly.
 
Yeah. I came across some info backing up the statement. AGP 2x would be nice and will score you higher benchmarks and help squeeze extra fps out of games.

Oh well. Like I said, the board is gone and I don't have to worry about it anymore.

Thanks for the help guys.
 
so it doesn't do 2x with stability. that's not so bad at all. 1x and 2x are almost exactly the same in terms of performance. as long as the geforce runs really stable in agp 1x, then what's the problem?
 
I have seen where the AGP speed does show up. Get a GHz proc, a GF2 GTS 64mb, crank the fsb up to about 110 and set the memeory at 133 to start. Then you get the memory performance along with the AGP performance. The video card is actually being bottlenecked by the low agp setting.

Like I said earlier, I already traded the board for a KT7-Raid and a Duron 600@950. Can't complain about that.
 
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